Microsoft MapPoint 2006 Standard Edition

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Product Description

Microsoft MapPoint is a business mapping software that combines powerful mapping and analysis tools with the simplicity of Microsoft Office. Designed for everyday business use, MapPoint allows users to easily locate and illustrate points on maps, integrate maps into Microsoft Office documents, and quickly identify business trends on a map, with either the user's own data or up-to-date, detailed demographic information.

General
Category	Creativity application
Subcategory	Creativity - GIS & map creation software
Language(s)	English
Software
License Type	Complete package
License Qty	1 user
License Pricing	Standard
Platform	Windows
Min Supported Color Depth	8-bit (256 colors)
Distribution Media	CD-ROM
Package Type	Retail
System Requirements
OS Required	Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional , Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Software Requirements	Internet Explorer 5.5 or later
Peripheral / Interface Devices	Mouse or compatible device, 4x CD-ROM, SVGA monitor
System Requirements Details	Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition - Pentium II - RAM 64 MB - HD 500 MB Microsoft Windows XP Professional - Pentium II - RAM 64 MB - HD 500 MB Microsoft Windows Server 2003 - Pentium II - RAM 256 MB - HD 500 MB Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional - Pentium II - RAM 64 MB - HD 500 MB

Customer Reviews

Reviewed on 2008-05-18 Make sure it is appropriate for your application All I want is a political map of the world with a group of 60 countries on it shaded. There is little control over shades -- I have a choice of sixteen colors for my group of shaded countries. That's it -- and oddly, none of them are colors I would willingly choose. The map is labeled not only by country names but also by certain states in the United States. There is no way to turn off this labeling. For my simple purposes, this program is unusable.

Reviewed on 2008-05-06 Disappointed Once I began defining the territories, using the US census geographic unit, my system crashed. I was not even halfway through the process. Microsoft's suggestions were to uninstall and reinstall but this did not fix the problem. Currently I am able to use about half of the functionality. I am very unhappy with this purchase.

Reviewed on 2008-04-11 Printing is difficult This product is fine if you do not want to print your map. I created a territory and added locations via the pushpins. At a lower zoom level, my pushpins overlap and are unreadable. I wanted to print the whole territory at a certain zoom level to allow veiwing of all the pushpins without overlap onto however many pages it takes. This is not possible. It will only print what you see on your screen. If you want to print your whole map, you literally have to save your screen view into a graphic file, scroll to the next area, save it as well and repeat until you have saved your entire territory. Once you have saved the whole map in peices, you can print all your files and tape them together to make one big map. Ridiculous!!

Reviewed on 2008-01-14 Great Tools There is a lot of meat to this product; identify drive times from a certain location, overlay income or other demographic info and convert selected areas into zip codes and export to Excel. Export maps in Word with push pins showing the location of important locations for others without MapPoint. Not particularly easy to learn and the book MapPoint for Dummies is an earlier version. Still, its a powerful program with great tools.

Reviewed on 2006-07-26 Beware of Upgrades First, keep in mind that Mappoint is NOT forward-compatible; i.e., your 2006 maps will be useless to anyone who owns prior versions. And, the 2006 version will not "save as" an older version either. In short, if you upgrade, everyone else will also need to upgrade. Otherwise, it's a decent program, although its "idiot-proof" functionality inhibits flexibility. For example, city names will obscure your every map whether you want them or not. I remove them by exporting my maps as jpg files, and editing them in Photoshop -- but that is a huge, and unnecessary, nuisance. Mappoint is a basic mapping program with some data-plotting features. Easy to use, colorful, very readable, but limiting. Microsoft could use some competition.

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